katzenberger 🇺🇦<p>Read the full text of <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/IbtihalAboussad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IbtihalAboussad</span></a>'s mail that she sent out after disrupting <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>'s 50th anniversary event, while AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was speaking.</p><p>It gives a bit of insight how Microsoft's deal with <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> makes their employees complicit in the <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> committed by in <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>.</p><p>»For the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim community at Microsoft has been silenced, intimidated, harassed, and doxxed, with impunity from Microsoft. Attempts at speaking up at best fell on deaf ears, and at worst, led to the firing of two employees for simply holding a vigil. There was simply no other way to make our voices heard.«</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/643670/micro</span><span class="invisible">soft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai</span></a></p><p>Look at the faces of the MS employees during her protest, they know what they're contributing to:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BoTBy1aHVM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=7BoTBy1aHV</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a> </p><p>Also look at how Suleyman goes back to business as usual, after Aboussad has been escorted out:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?t=69" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?t=69</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>